Energy Policy, Markets and Law - 2024 entry

1. An understanding of market forces affecting the energy sector and of the way that macro-economic and environmental issues affect the thinking of government worldwide and how this is converted into policy and be able to consider these in a renewable energy context;

2. A basic understanding of the English legal system as it applies to the development of legislation, with a particular emphasis on energy;

3. A basic understanding of the different pressures on energy supply, particularly on the conflicts between security of supply, environmental impact and attendant costs of applied energy policy. The module considers conflicting policy goals and takes the energy trilemma as a jumping off point to exploring this conflict. Adopt a holistic and proportionate approach to the mitigation of security risks, the need to consider equitable access to power and the potential environmental costs (B10).

4. Evaluate the environmental and societal impact of solutions to broadly defined problems (C7).

5. Apply an integrated or systems approach to the solution of broadly defined problems and develop an improved understanding of some of the need for systemic change in the energy system, the drivers for change, and the current and potential future changes to electricity and other energy supply (B6).

Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge:

6. Develop an increased ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences (B17).

7. Select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of information to address broadly defined problems (B4).

Personal and Key Transferable/ Employment Skills and Knowledge:

8.  Improved skills relating to producing documents to a professional standard (B17).

• ELE page contains links to reading material and other items of interest. 
• A purpose written glossary of relevant terms is provided to students via the module ELE page. 
• Students are provided with a list of recommended reading at the end of each lecture, along with websites and data to find academic papers. Each set of lecture notes contains 2-4 links to relevant material.

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• Israel Solorio & Helge Jorgens, A guide to EU renewable energy policy, Elgar, 2017 (978178347155 3)
• Ekins, P., Bradshaw, M. and Watson, J., Global Energy: Issues, Potential and Policy Implications, Oxford University Press 2015, 0198719531 
• Pere Mir-Artigues, Pablo del Río, The Economics and Policy of Solar Photovoltaic Generation, Springer, 2016 (3319806181)
• Ozawa, M; Chaplin, J; Politt, M; Reiner, D; Warde, P (eds.), In Search of Good Energy Policy, Cambridge University Press, 2019 (1108455468)
• Van de Graaf, Thijs & Ben Sovacool, Global Energy Politics, Wiley, 2020 (1509530495)
• Fiorino, Daniel J., The Clean Energy Transition: Policies and Politics for a Zero–Carbon World, Polity, 2022 (1509544879)  

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